[4] In 2016 she and other writers collaborated with scientists from Bristol University in Literary Archaeology, a project to re-imagine the lives of enslaved people using the material evidence of their skeletal remains.
[1] Jackson was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2024 New Year Honours for services to art.
[7] In 2021 Jackson was one of the four shortlisted artists to create a new monument to the Windrush generation at Waterloo Station,[8] a commission later won by the sculptor Basil Watson.
[9] Jackson's proposal, presented for public consultation in July 2021, was for three scattered bronze figures on a raised platform.
[10] Two standing adults and one small child would have symbolised the diverse experiences of migrants to the United Kingdom, with space between the figures to emphasise the ambiguity of separation and migration, as well as inviting onlookers and passers to pause and sit in that space themselves: I want to place on a platform the image of those who might feel least appreciated, most of risk of having to answer the question, "Why are you here?"